Guram Mchedlidze
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Guram I. Mchedlidze (Georgian: გურამ ი. მჭედლიძე; September 27, 1931, Tbilisi – 2009, Tbilisi) was a Georgian Palaeobiologist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS), Doctor of Biological Sciences (Dr. Habil.), Professor.[1]
In 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the Tbilisi State University (TSU). Since 1973 he was Professor of this Faculty.
In 1962 Mchedlidze received a PhD degree in biology, in 1973 a degree of the Doctor of Biological Sciences. In 1983 he was elected as Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS).
From 1979 to 1989 he was a deputy director of the L. Davitashvili Institute of Palaeobiology, serving as Director from 1989 to 2009.
In 1971, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Paleontology.
Main fields of his scientific activity were a fossil dolphin, Tertiary cetaceans, phylogenesis of cetaceans, ancient mammals. He was author of more than 100 scientific-research works (among them 5 monographs).
Mchedlidze was organizer and participant of many important scientific events in Georgia and abroad.